Learn Cantonese 3: Multilingual Hong Kong

This is is the third in a series of Cantonese learning videos with simple everyday dialogues. Sound files were extracted and recycled from the US Foreign Service Institute’s (FSI) Basic Cantonese 1. Avatars were made with CrazyTalk. Photos of Hong Kong are distributed under a Creative Commons licence and/or GNU. Songs are copyright of various copyright holders. Everything else is public domain.

In Lesson 3, you learn how to say the names of several languages in Cantonese and ask who speaks which language. Mr Hak, an American visitor, meets a local lady in Mong Kok and practices his Cantonese.

(BTW, the Deng Lijun song is in Hokkien – not Cantonese.)

Here is the dialogue in traditional Chinese characters, Yale Cantonese romanization, and the English translation:

A: 李生識係識講日本話呀?

B: 識些少.
A: 咁, 佢識係識講英文呢?
B: 都識些少.
A: 邊嗰教佢講英文呢?
B. 係黃生教佢嘅.

A: Léih Sàang sīk m̀hsīk góng Yahtbúnwá a?
B: Sīk sèsíu.
A: Gám, kéuih sīk m̀hsīk góng Yìngmán nē?
B: Dōu sīk sèsíu.
A: Bīngo gaau kéuih góng Yìngmán ge nē?
B: Haih Wòhng Sàang gaau kéuih ge.

A: Does Mr Lee speak Japanese?
B: A little.
A: Does he speak English, then?
B: He speaks a little English, too.
A: Who taught him English?
B: Mr Wong.

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